but honestly it doesn't save any time over just putting the crafting materials in the appropriate places yourself. I'm not sure if I have enough bowling pins yet.Īfter you've created your giant factory of Forges, you can use a maze of sorters, hoppers, and conveyer belts to automatically distribute the needed items to each factory.

Of course, there's more than just weaponry that the Forges let you create, as the Builder offers up a host of non-combat options, either just for hijinks' sake, or for filling up your pitching machine to constantly send a stream of objects at whoever you have incarcerated in the stocks. You can create your own ready supply of ammo using all that junk found out in the Commonwealth (with enough lead and fertilizer, you'll never run out of ammunition for that minigun), put together nearly any weapon you've never found on enemies, or even ensure all your settlers are properly armed and armored.ġst bowling pin fresh off the factory line! Become An Industrial Giantīuilders, Forges, Auto-Looms, Pyrotechnics Plants, and Explosives Mills now allow the opportunity (without mods) to mass produce pretty much anything you want. and absolutely go to town on creating contraptions.Īs with the base settlement building system, Bethesda didn't feel the need to put any sort of tutorial in there for any of this, and the settlement screen doesn't in any way mark what objects are new to the DLC, so you pretty well have to figure it out yourself by trial and error.įor a full run down of the new additions, what crafting materials are required to make them, and the three new Contraptions Workshop achievements, head over here.

For those who avoid cheating, it's officially time to pull up those console commands and give yourself a couple of hundred thousand lead, asbestos, steel, etc. until I realized how addicting building a Willy Wonka style factory in the heart of Sanctuary was going to become. I'll admit at first I thought the whole thing was sort of pointless.

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